A few days ago Forbes ran a story about Olaf Carlson-Wee who has lived for three years using only bitcoin as currency. The 26 year-old works for bitcoin start-up Coinbase, so he obviously has a personal investment in proving the viability of bitcoin as a currency; even so it’s an impressive achievement. Carlson-Wee began his journey before bitcoin began to achieve…

The Diet in Japan (the legislature consisting of the Lower and the Upper Houses) has passed a bill today that mandates the regulation of bitcoin and virtual currency exchanges by the Financial Services Agency (FSA) in Japan. Japan has enacted a bill today that will see the regulation of operators of virtual currency exchanges, a report revealed. The revised law will…

We will send you an SMS (Text) message with a unique one time password which must be provided before your wallet data will be made available for decryption. To be able to login to your wallet you must provide both your password and SMS code. If for example your wallet password was compromised due to a keylogger or phishing attempt the attacker would be unable to access…

There’s a lot of hype around blockchain. In 2015, Tierion was the first company to complete a blockchain healthcare project through becoming the first partner in Philips Blockchain Lab. To separate the hype from the reality, we’re sharing our perspective after a year of working with the world’s largest healthcare and insurance companies. Many blockchain reports portray…

Ajit Varma Sellers should never miss a sale. We’re building tools so sellers can accept any form of payment their customers want to use. Making commerce easy means creating easy ways to exchange value for everything from a massage to a DODOcase for your iPad. In that spirit, starting today, buyers can purchase goods and services on Square Market with Bitcoin. We’re…

We encourage users to try our in-app buy/sell feature but since this feature isn’t available in all states or some people want same day services here are some places we recommend. Buying bitcoin with cash: Bitcoin ATMs, , LibertyX, and Paxful. Paxful allows you to buy with multiple payment methods including trading gift cards for bitcoin. When you use theses services…

Development To run Insight UI locally in development mode: Install bower dependencies: $ bower install To compile and minify the web application s assets: $ grunt compile There is a convenient Gruntfile.js for automation during editing the code $ grunt Multilanguage support To enable a text to be translated, add the translate directive to html tags. See more details…

The CIO at a Boston teaching hospital and two MIT researchers write in the Harvard Business Review that blockchain has the potential to enable secure lifetime medical record sharing across providers,calling it a different construct, providing a universal set of tools for cryptographic assurance of data integrity, standardized auditing, and formalized contracts…

Malicious Bitcoin wallets on mobile devices are a bigger threat than most people give it credit for. Mainly the Apple App Store seems to be rather lenient towards these types of applications, as they appear to slip through the verification process without much problems. The latest addition to this growing list is Bitwallet, which is allegedly created by the GreenAddress…

Source: Thinkstock The Office of the National Coordinator might not always get what it wants when it comes to industry cooperation, but ONC officials have been pleasantly surprised by the positive response to its informational blockchain challenge. The agency found its inbox flooded with 70 entries after offering a cash prize for academic papers that best capture…

A prominent privacy consultant has criticised Australia Post s intervention in the Australian State of Victoria s inquiry into electronic voting. The state has been gathering submissions into the idea, and held its first public hearings yesterday. Among the submissions was Australia Post s, in which the organisation pitches itself as the body to operate electronic…

It was great to have Joseph Poon and Thaddeus Dryja at PubNub to talk about scaling bitcoin. Those who know Bitcoin are well aware of the difficulties of using the blockchain for micro-payments. Here at PubNub, we’re especially interested in the success of the Bitcoin ecosystem because several Bitcoin applications, companies, and exchanges use PubNub to transmit time-sensitive…